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My husbands bird like aunt

August 19, 2009 by Tricia

My in-laws were visiting over the weekend. I’m still recovering!

They were visiting because my husbands uncle is in poor health and my husband was sort of taking care of his sick uncle (along with his cousin’s help) over the weekend.

I seriously think my husbands Aunt, who was also visiting and staying with us over the weekend will be the next one to get sick. She’s super skinny. Like you can feel every single bone in her back and shoulders when you carefully attempt to give her a hug! It’s like she tried ever supplement on the best fat burner list!

She exists mainly on what we call bird food. Every month or so, she and my mother in law come to Toronto for a visit and during each visit they spend about three hours at The Big Carrot (a huge local health food store). My husbands aunt comes back with products like Millet puffs and things like that. I swear she probably only eats about 500 calories a day.

Do you have any relatives that worry you over their poor eating habits?

Off topic ads?

August 11, 2009 by Tricia

I have the strangest thing happening on one of my blogs lately. One of the advertising companies I use to supply ads has been showing some totally irrelevant ads – at least on my end.

It’s on my gardening blog. I’m seeing ads for weight loss supplements and oddly enough one that says moving companies Los Angeles. Odd.

It’s especially odd when you consider that I talk about my garden, give gardening tips and discuss specific plants on that blog. Nothing close to the ad topics that have been showing up!

Do you use advertising on your site? If you do, have you noticed that occasionally your ads just don’t fit with your sites main topics?

Why can’t people just get along?

August 6, 2009 by Tricia

There are days that I just hate the internet!

Seriously! As some of you know I have several websites and blogs that I try to maintain on a daily or at least weekly basis. On top of that there’s all the social sites that one needs to be a member of in order to list and promote your sites and make connections with other bloggers and webmasters.

Not to mention forums and maybe even discussion or mailing lists!

It’s the mailing lists that have me frustrated today. A long long time ago (1995 or so) I was really into reptiles … lizards to be perfectly honest. You see I’m allergic to cats, dogs and birds (yes I do have a dog now but I live on allergy meds!) so reptiles were the perfect and in fact pretty much only pet I could have.

To make a long story short – I fell in love with Chinese water dragons and Iguanas. Most people buying reptile pets don’t have a lot of knowledge about their care and it’s still hard to find good information on the net, in a pet store or even from a Veterinarian about their care …. so I learned as much as I could about Chinese Water Dragons and started my Huge website in 1995. As my knowledge grew so did my site.

Along the way I started a mailing list for Water dragon keepers. I also took over a failing Turtle list and an Uromastyx lizard list. The turtle list imploded a few years ago when people couldn’t get along and now I think the same things going to happen with the uromastyx list.

Have you ever been in a forum or on a discussion list where the posts got heated and people started picking on one another … well that’s what’s happening on my Uro list.

I only have a few rules – stay on topic, no off topic posts, be polite and take heated discussions off the list. I don’t think that’s too hard to follow – right?

Well I just gave the list a big colon cleanse with a terse ADMIN post telling them to behave or else I’d shut down the list. It’s their choice!

Do any of you run forums or online discussion lists or mailing lists. Aren’t they hard to manage when people start OT discussions or arguing? Geesh!

Thinking about getting an MP3 player

July 30, 2009 by Tricia

I know that I’ve said this before, but I mean it this time. I want some kind of MP3 player.

I’m sure I’d walk longer with our dog if I had music playing in my ears as I walked.

So … either tomorrow or some time this weekend I think my husband and I will go out and look at Mp3 players. Naturally I want a good one, but we don’t have a lot of spare cash (none really!) so I need to find a deal!

I guess that if I find they are still too expensive for us right now I can always use our shopping trip as a research mission. You know, find an MP3 player that I really like and then keep an eye out for perhaps an online deal.

Anyone have any suggestions as to what brand of MP3 player we should look at? I don’t need anything fancy … just one that plays music.

Dog with a fetish?

July 26, 2009 by Tricia

My Labrador Retriever, Midnight, who’s almost two years old, had developed a fetish. She loves cardboard and won’t leave it alone!

Any time we have some cardboard around – say an empty box for a 12 pack of pop, an empty cereal box or any kind of thick paper she starts jumping around because she wants to take it back to her doggy bed so that she can tear it up!

It’s kind of funny, but it’s gotten to the point where we can’t carry things around without her trying to grab it out of our hands. Now I’m afraid to take her into the pet store too … they have cardboard displays and I think she’ll try to eat them! LOL

Aren’t dogs fun! They’re nuts!

So how do I get her off this cardboard fetish? Actually she’s not too bad. If we say no she won’t keep trying for it … but still it’s a pain when you’re trying to carry something and at first she’s jumping at you. I mean, she’s a 70 lb dog!

What to do?